“I need your best right now”: How to ask kids to step up
These here are troubled times and many of us have some very troubled kids on our hands. It’s hard to shield them from the COVID-19 news, and as the kids …
These here are troubled times and many of us have some very troubled kids on our hands. It’s hard to shield them from the COVID-19 news, and as the kids …
My middle child is a shy one. She’s full of beans and very outgoing when she is comfortable, but struggles when she doesn’t know people well. In fact, I’d go …
I’m naturally a very untidy person, but I like neat. I learned long ago that in order to get neat, you have to do tidy. In fact, you have to …
I had a 15-year-old write to me and ask about figuring out ‘what to do with my life’. She writes: ‘As a high school student I’m constantly being reminded to …
If you’ve got a kid with anxiety, you’ll understand when I say that some kids are just harder to parent than others. “Happy children are all alike; every unhappy child is unhappy …
AskReddit is often a good read for vox-pop type discussions. Someone asks a question and everyone opens up. I recently came across a thread about what people wish their parents …